• President Trump sharply escalated a sudden open rift with the top Republican in Congress. He raised the possibility that Mitch McConnell, above, should perhaps relinquish his position as Senate majority leader if he cannot deliver on Mr. Trump’s legislative priorities.

Mr. Xiao, who has ties to Wanda going back years, was spirited from Hong Kong months ago and is believed to be on the mainland.

A Wanda insider said Mr. Xiao might be laying out for government regulators the complex and interlocking web of debts and shareholding ties among many companies that could pose a danger to China’s financial stability.

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The advance may make it possible one day to transplant livers, hearts and other organs from pigs into humans — a remarkable prospect that raises some ethical alarms.

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• Boeing, the venerable U.S. aircraft maker, is the Dow’s top performer this year, easily beating out second-place Apple and Netflix.

• We’re all ears: In a few hours, Google will stream a private, all-hands meeting from its California headquarters its 60,000 workers around the world. The topic — the firing of an engineer over a memo arguing that his female counterparts are less biologically suited to the job — has set off layers of debate over sexism, free speech and groupthink.

• Apple’s app storein China is under fire: A group of developers has asked Chinese authorities to investigate whether Apple is violating local pricing and antitrust laws.

• Travis Kalanick was sued by a major Uber investor seeking to remove him from the board, with charges including investor fraud and other transgressions.

• At least 50 migrants fleeing Ethiopia and Somalia drowned after a human smuggler threw them into the Arabian Sea en route to Yemen. [The New York Times]

• Iran barred two players for life from its national soccer team after they played against an Israeli team. [The New York Times]

• The U.S. military started the long-awaited transfer of aircraft from the Atsugi air base in Japan, a source of decades of noise pollution complaints and lawsuits. [Asahi Shimbun]

• “I didn’t improvemy English, I just changed the way I took the test.” Applicants for Australian residency described how they outsmarted the computerized language test. [The Guardian]

• Fossils discovered in China are the earliest “mammal forerunners that took to air” — essentially flying “squirrels” that glided over predatory dinosaurs and probably still laid eggs. [The New York Times]

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• An Australian writer considers the new focus on the prevalence of sexual assault in her country, and, in this Op-Ed, makes the argument that minuscule conviction rates in countries like her own, Australia, Britain and the U.S., leave naming and shaming rapists one of the few options victims have for even a sliver of justice.

During a sound check before his weekly radio address, the president said, “I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

The Soviets charged that Mr. Reagan’s comments were “unprecedentedly hostile toward the U.S.S.R. and dangerous to the cause of peace.”

Soberly noting that “nuclear destruction is not something most people think of as a fit subject for summer sport,” The Times’s editorial page wondered about the next subject with which he would amuse himself before a speech.